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Bunzaemon Kinokuniya seems to be a real person, but the detailed figure seems to be unknown.

There is a theory that he was born in Kanbun 9 (1669), but there is no confirmation. It is presumed that the death year is Kyoho 19 (1973) and is 66 years old. The place of birth is said to be Yuasa, the country of Kishu.

One year in my twenties, there was a time when mandarin oranges were abundant in the Kishu region. However, in that year the storm shuts down the route to Edo, and the surplus mandarin oranges are bought by the upper merchant and the price goes down. On the other hand, in Edo, where there is a shortage of mandarin oranges, the price of mandarin oranges has risen. Bunzaemon thinks that if you buy cheap mandarin oranges here and carry them to Edo, where you buy them high, you will make a profit. Everyone may be able to come up with it, but the person who can take action is a successful person. He borrows a lot of money from his father-in-law to purchase a large amount of mandarin oranges, hurry up the ragged ship, and gathers seafarers. I knew it was a life-threatening job, so only the rough people came together. Instead of asking others to stop, they will be sailors with three times the pay, and to show their determination, they will put on white clothing and put on a triangular cloth on their head to make the sailor feel of death. In Edo, there is a fuigo festival where blacksmiths, swordsmiths, casters, and other craftsmen who handle fire work tools that they usually use, purify the fuigo, decorate them, and offer oranges. . Fugo is a tool that blows air, and in the "Princess Mononoke", there are scenes where strong women trampl and air is blown out with a blowjob. Bunzaemons arrived in Edo after overcoming the storm while meeting dangerous events many times, and became very popular with oranges in time for the Fugo Festival. It is said that the price with a premium is about 2,000 cars with only oranges, and the current value is more than 200 million.

Bunzaemon learned that there was a flood in Osaka during his stay in Edo and that the plague was prevalent, bought salt salmon from Edo, and rumored that it would be better to eat salt salmon for infectious diseases, and this time to Osaka I carried it. Bunzaemon made a great profit for selling just like flying. Based on the money, we will open a lumber shop in Hon Hatchobori in Edo. It is said to be the current Hatchobori 3-chome (pictured above).

There are many legends left in Bunzaemon.

For example, it is said that during the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era, the so-called kimono fire, he bought up timber and made a great profit. However, it should not have been born in 1657, when the fire broke out. About 50 years older than Bunzaemon, it is mixed with Zuiken Kawamura, an Australian merchant who set up a large house in the Shinkawa area and also handled timber, buying Kiso timber during the great fire of the Meiryaku era. .

Zuiken Kawamura is the man who mined Shinkawa. We will develop a route to send Oshu rice to Edo, and we will work on flood control in Kinai by Shuji Yodo River in Osaka. It is called the man who built Edo. The plate of the ruins of the Zuiken Kawamura mansion is located along Eitai-dori St. Kameshima Bridge also mentions Ruiken, and the name appears on the monument at the site of Shinkawa.

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It is famous that Bunzaemon rents out Yoshiwara and plays a lot.

It is said that "Daimon is hit by a person from Hatchobori." Hitting Daimon means closing the gate of Yoshiwara, which means renting it all night. It was called Kibun Daijin. In the scene where Kaonashi plays a lot, it is called a great exhaustion.

At that time, the reputation in the playground was the biggest advertising. He gained the reputation of being rich by going around, and gained a lot of business credibility. The era was the Genroku era, when it was said that bribes were rampant in the days of Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa, a side servant, Shigehide Ogiwara of the account, and Masatake Abe of the old man. I guess it was easy for Bunzaemon to get in. It is said that Bunzaemon succeeded in contracting timber and gained a great deal when constructing the Nemoto Chudo of Ueno Kanei-ji Temple, which was built in Iemitsu, the three major shoguns. And as a purveyor of the Shogunate, timber wholesalers flourished in many ways.

The photo shows the exterior of Waoden at Kanei-ji Temple, along the tracks at Ueno Station. There is Nemoto Chudo in Tokyo University of the Arts. Nemoto Chudo was built on the site of the current large fountain in Ueno Park, but was burned down in the war of the Shogitai. It is written that the current building was relocated from the main hall of Kawagoe Kitain. There is no evidence of Bunzaemon's achievements.

It was also said that Bunzaemon moved the timber shop to Kyobashi and made the town one section of Hatchobori into a mansion.

It is said that the shop later moved to Fukagawa and built Koba, but it was burned down by fire and closed the lumber shop.

The business that was rumored to have been commissioned by the Shogunate to cast Hoei era Tsuho (Jubunsen) and invested all the property, was poor in the quality of Jubunsen. Then, the fifth shogun Tsunayoshi died, and in one year the Hoei era Tsuho was abolished. Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa was also expelled, and he seems to have lost his willingness to do business. After moving to Senso-ji Temple, he seemed to have lived in the back of Fukagawa Hachimangu Shrine.

There is also a theory that he continued to interact with cultural figures such as Kikaku Enomoto and others, dedicated three portable shrines to Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine Fukagawa, and stored a lot of wood at Katori-jingu Shrine.

The photo shows the monument of Bunzaemon next to Seidoin in Kiyosumi Shirakawa, Koto-ku. It is said that the tomb of Bunzaemon is next to it.

It is the Kiyosumi Garden in Koto-ku. Yataro Iwasaki purchased the site of the Shimoyashiki of Kuze Yamato Mamoru and the surrounding land, and made it a migratory forest spring garden. There is a legend that part of the land here was Bunzaemon's mansion. It is also written in the explanation version next to the garden. I don't know as true or false.

Even if you look at the book forest Chuo, for example, if you look at some house maps near Hatchobori before and after Genroku period, there is no description of Bunzaemon Kinokuniya, and almost all of the Ichimachi of Honhachichobori were Bunzaemon's shops and mansions. Iku Yamamoto's book "Bunzaemon Kinokuniya's Life" was also a novel. There is a theory that there is a novel called "Golden Water Great Susumu Cup" written at the end of the Meiji era, and anecdotes of several wealthy people are concentrated in a person named Bunzaemon.

However, if it was actually alive, it would have lived in the back of Fukagawa Hachimangu Shrine and, in a sense, had a lively life with his rival Mozaemon Naraya on Reiganjima on the opposite bank. Unlike large merchants who accumulate reserves such as Mitsui and Sumitomo and remain in future generations, those who scatter like fireworks are Edokko, especially those who are loved by Fukagawa kid, and such a large garden is Bunzaemon Some scholars claim that it must have been the site of the mansion.

Hatchobori today has no remnants of around the Genroku era. There is nothing to write the footsteps of Bunzaemon. But they leave something like a dream.

Regardless of the true or false of historical facts, I am proud of being a local person.